Recently I wrote The Biggest Threat to Your Private-Cloud Deployment: Your IT Staff as a call to management to understand the importance of their IT staff and the changes that will be required to move to a cloud model. That post received some strong criticism from readers who took it as an attack on IT, which was not its intent. In this post I’ll cover the flipside of the coin, the IT staff perspective. To see the full article visit: http://www.networkcomputing.com/private-cloud/240003623.
Cloud Types
Within the discussion of cloud computing there are several concepts that get tossed around and mixed up. Part of the reason for this is that there are several cloud architecture types. While there are tons of types and sub-types discussed I’ll focus on four major deployment models here: Public Cloud,…
TCO and ROI: A Cadillac Perspective
This summer I traded in my beloved Toyota 4 runner for a Cadillac CTS V Black Diamond edition. There was no issue with the 4 Runner and I owed nothing on it. I was not in need of an extra payment, I just wanted the V. Maybe it was a…
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The Art of Pre-Sales
On a recent customer call being led by a vendor account manager and engineer I witnessed some key mistakes by the engineer as he presented the technology to the customer. None of the mistakes were glaring or show stopping but they definitely kept the conversation from having the value that…
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blogger if you are not already 😉 Cheers!